Alternatives articles from April 1995

Alternatives archives from April 1995

Building bridges, tearing down walls. (ecofeminism)(Editorial)(Cover Story)
April 1, 1995... Ecofeminism. The term seethes with militancy and radical action on one hand and gentle, spiritual (yes, nurturing) communing with nature on the other. I find both of these readings problematic. The first contradicts most women's commitment to...

Fill this out in triplicate, please. (satire on potential comet collision with Earth)(Column)
April 1, 1995... Unless you're the sort of person whose interest in the planets is limited to the morning horoscope, you probably know that last summer Comet Schumacher-Levy took a two-and-a-half gainer into the surface of Jupiter. This unusual celestial event...

Innu condemn decision on low-level flights. (military training flights in Eastern Canada; includes related articles)
April 1, 1995... Representatives of the Innu Nation say they will continue to fight expansion of low-level military flight training in eastern Quebec and Labrador, despite a federal environmental assessment panel's recommendation favouring the proposal. The...

Programme amplifies the voices of youth. (Canada's Environmental Vision Exchange)
April 1, 1995... So they say that kids these days are apathetic, lazy TV watchers who don't contribute to society. Teenagers are too young to say anything worth listening to, but too old to be patronized (although some do try). TV, the great pacifier, is the...

Wolves blamed for ecological imbalances. (Yukon Territory plans 1995 wolf kill)
April 1, 1995... The Yukon territorial government plans to kill more wolves in the Aishihik region this winter, despite continued opposition by conservationists and doubts about the programme's past success. While the Yukon government feels that predator...

Killer Gold permit stirs court action. (Yukon Territory mining permit challenged)
April 1, 1995... The Yukon Conservation Society, represented by the Sierra Legal Defense Fund, is suing the federal government for its refusal to require a comprehensive environmental assessment of exploration work on a block of mineral claims in the Yukon....

Same old story: poor management and optimistic quotas blamed for West Coast salmon loss.
April 1, 1995... More than three million sockeye salmon went missing from the Fraser River last fall. Poor management, overly optimistic catch limits, illegal harvesting and natural factors are being blamed for the losses. The Fraser River is a major channel...

Dene schoolchildren benefit from traditional knowledge. (traditional medicine curriculum)
April 1, 1995... Young people in the remote communities of the NWT might prefer to go to their local nursing station when suffering from a cold, but a unique programme combining traditional knowledge research with school curricula could send them searching for...

Philippine program initiates local empowerment. (UNICEF program)
April 1, 1995... UNICEF workers in the Philippines have developed a public health programme for mothers and children that incorporates literacy and environmental awareness along with their usual focus on immunizations, nutrition and clean water. The...

Walking the line: facing the complexities of the woman-nature link. (ecofeminism; includes French language abstract)(Cover Story)
April 1, 1995... Some of the most provocative works within contemporary environmental disclosure are feminist analyses of environmental issues. It is here that efforts are being made to address the absence of women's experiences from the majority of discussions...

Initiatives in feminism, environmentalism and action.(Cover Story)
April 1, 1995... Today, many women's groups around the world are preparing for the fourth United Nations World Conference on Women, which will take place in Beijing, China in September 1995. By then, it will have been ten years since the end of the UN Decade for...

Making the links: why bioregionalism needs feminism.(includes French language abstract)(Cover Story)
April 1, 1995... Bioregionalism and ecofeminism are two streams of the contemporary environmental movement that provide related yet distinct frameworks for analyzing environmental and social justice issues, as well as offering visions of more sustainable ways of...

Ecofeminist spiritualities.(includes French language abstract)(Cover Story)
April 1, 1995... Ecofeminist spiritualities have been an integral part of the ecofeminist movement and discourse since its early days, especially in North America.(1) As the ecological and feminist movements became aware of the connections between the domination...

The great cosmic metaphor: thinking about the "Earth our Mother."(includes French language abstract)(Cover Story)
April 1, 1995... Most of my life, I have lived as a farmer. I live and work with my extended family on an organic subsistence farm. We live this way, not necessarily because of intellectual conviction or high ideals, although we can drum those up if necessary,...

Gender Bias: Roadblock to Sustainable Development.
April 1, 1995... In this compact but impressive little book, researcher Jodi Jacobson presents compelling and well-documented arguments for placing gender centrestage in sustainable development programmes. Far from being a predictable reiteration of the much...

Monocultures of the Mind: Perspectives on Biodiversity and Biotechnology.
April 1, 1995... Vandana Shiva is the director of the research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in Dehra Dun and science and environment advisor of the Third World Network as well as the author of the much-acclaimed book Staying...

Childerley: Nature and Morality in a Country Village.
April 1, 1995... "Childerley is not a particularly attractive village." Located approximately two hours from London, England, in the county of Hampshire, it is what geographers call an "exurb"; an indeterminate zone where suburban neatness and rural farmland fade...

Greening the GATT: Trade, Environment, and the Future.
April 1, 1995... These two volumes make for an interesting exercise in juxtaposition. Daniel Esty's book is most concerned with how trade liberalization can proceed without causing greater ecological damage or giving unGATTly protectionists an excuse for slowing...

Global Visions: Beyond the New World Order.
April 1, 1995... These two volumes make for an interesting exercise in juxztaposition. Daniel Esty's book is most concerned with how trade liberalization can proceed without causing greater ecological damage or giving unGATT protectionists an excuse for slowing...

Troubled Lands: The Legacy of Soviet Environmental Destruction.
April 1, 1995... The city of Norilsk puts out about half the volume of air pollution of Mexico City, with only one percent of the population. The Aral Sea is shrinking. The Black Sea is dying. And the Baltic Sea is said to be the most polluted water body in the...

Temporal aliens, hysteria and the tragedy of the commons.(Column)
April 1, 1995... It began as an entry in my daybook and another in my doctor's schedule. Two moments in technological time that came together in the bland interior of my doctor's office. As always, I hated spreading my legs, and inserting my feet in the rigid...